Thanks, guys. Allow me to explain my motivation: I try to find out how "big" is research into wikis and Wikipedia at the moment. How much attention is given to it. And what would the basis look like if you'd try to establish a proper academic discipline about wikis. Kind regards Ziko
Am So., 5. Jan. 2020 um 21:21 Uhr schrieb Stuart A. Yeates < [email protected]>: > This largely depends on what you mean by "about" > > Many tens of thousands of articles use a wikipedia or other WMF > service as a source in some way (either a source for a definition, a > selection or as a traditional datasource in some way) or speculate > about the future of wikis. > > At the other end of the spectrum, a vanishing small number tell > experienced wikipedia editors anything they didn't already know about > their wikipedia or other WMF service or quantify things we know in > ways we don't see as deeply flawed. > > cheers > stuart > -- > ...let us be heard from red core to black sky > > > On Mon, 6 Jan 2020 at 02:36, Ziko van Dijk <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > Hello, > > to everyone to whom it concerns, my best wishes for the year 2020! > > I am interested in the number of scientific papers or monographies, > > articles etc. about wikis. Do you know about a paper that has come up > with > > a relatively recent number? > > In my understanding, there are several problems that make it unwise to > > simply search for "wiki" in a general catalogue: > > * the word wiki can appear in words such as "Wikinger" (German for: > > viking), or it is used as a metaphor (e.g., for a reform of democracy) > > * some entities such as Wikileaks have "wiki" in their name, but are no > > wikis, and some entities such as Open Street Map are wikis, but don't > have > > the word in their name > > * wiki relevant topics may appear under terms such as "collaborative > > writing" or "open content creation". > > > > Kind regards > > Ziko > > _______________________________________________ > > Wiki-research-l mailing list > > [email protected] > > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wiki-research-l > > _______________________________________________ > Wiki-research-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wiki-research-l > _______________________________________________ Wiki-research-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wiki-research-l
